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A Dynamic version of this spreadsheet where you can run your own Keyword searches (BUT you must first make a copy of it using File.. Make a copy - Note you need to be logged into your Google Account to do this.)The example given is "Fischer" but you can put your own keyword in after you make a copy of it.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj8tI4S2Ilk

Letsplaychess.com presents Sicilian Defence Part 1

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Play FREE online chess at http://www.chessworld.net Sicilian Defence Part 1 - A brief introduction to the main variations

Letsplaychess.com Opening systems: A system against the English Opening

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Play online turn-based chess at http://www.chessworld.net Letsplaychess.com Opening systems: A system against the English Opening - in particular an early liberating d5 by black, and then Qa4+ by White. Two illustrative games show the resources available to Black are very good.

Play online turn-based chess at http://www.chessworld.net Sicilian Defence Part 2

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Letsplaychess.com presents Polgar brilliancy game - English Opening with early Bb4

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Play online turn-based chess at http://www.chessworld.net Letsplaychess.com presents Chessgames.com game of the day. You can replay the game of the day at: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1316635

Play online turn-based chess at http://www.chessworld.net Chess World.net presents: New Tactical concept: "Mass Distraction" FEN string which you can check with engine analysis with. Note this may not be a sound combination. But it worked in OTB chess: 2bq1r1k/1pp3bp/2n3p1/2N5/1PPp4/3P1pP1/2N2P1P/Q4RKB b - - 0 23

Play online turn-based chess at http://www.chessworld.net or the ICC for blitz chess like this video at : http://www.chessclub.com/from/kingscrusher Letsplaychess.com presents: Kingscrusher live commentary bullet chess! Please note: This video contains strong language in parts. One of the points of the video was to emphasise the role of intuition - and one GM in the video demonstrates a very fast calculated piece sacrifice which implements a mate on h7.

Happy new year 2010! A return to the 2001 Space Odyssey - the Hal 9000 Supercomputer!

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[Event "Hamburg"] [Site "Hamburg"] [Date "1910.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Roesch"] [Black "Willi Schlage"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C77"] [PlyCount "32"] [EventDate "1910.??.??"] {Poole - HAL 9000 is a fictional chess game in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the movie, the astronaut Frank Poole is seen playing chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer. As HAL is supposed to be infallible, no one is surprised when HAL soundly defeats Poole (though the novel mentions that HAL is programmed only to win 50% of the time in order for there to be some point in the astronauts ever playing). The director Stanley Kubrick was a passionate chess player, so unlike many chess scenes shown in other films, the position and analysis makes sense. The actual game seems to come from Roesch - Schlage, Hamburg 1910, a tournament game between two lesser-known masters.[1]} 1. e4 { Space.. cold.. likecalculation!} e5 {HAL 9000 is a fictional computer in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey saga. It was ranked #13 on a list of greatest film villains of all time on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains. HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is an artificial intelligence, the sentient on-board computer of the spaceship Discovery. HAL is usually represented only as his television camera "eyes" that can be seen throughout the Discovery spaceship. The voice of HAL 9000 was performed by Canadian actor Douglas Rain. In the book, HAL became operational on 12 January 1997 (1992 in the film)[1] at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois. His first instructor was Dr. Chandra (Mr. Langley in the film). HAL is depicted as being capable not only of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, and natural language processing, but also lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, reasoning, and playing chess, in addition to maintaining all systems on an interplanetary voyage. HAL is never visualized as a single entity. He is, however, portrayed with a soft voice and a conversational manner. This is in contrast to the human astronauts, who speak in terse monotone, as do all other actors in the film.} 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Qe2 b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. c3 O-O 8. O-O d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5 Nf4 11. Qe4 Nxe5 12. Qxa8 (12. Qxe5 Bd6 13. Qe4 Qh4 14. Kh1 Bg4 15. d4 (15. f3 Ne2 16. h3 Ng3+ 17. Kg1 Nxe4) 15... Rae8 16. Qb7 Qxf2 17. Nd2 Re1) 12... Qd3 13. Bd1 Bh3 {The position after 13...Bh3, and the ones that follow, were used in Stanley Kubrick's movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" for the game between Frank Poole and the HAL-9000 computer.} 14. Qxa6 Bxg2 15. Re1 {Kubrick's father taught him chess at age twelve, and the game remained a lifelong obsession.} { Eventually, he sought jobs as a freelance photographer, and by graduation, he had sold a photographic series to Look magazine. Kubrick supplemented his income by playing chess "for quarters" in Washington Square Park and various Manhattan chess clubs.[9]} Qf3 16. Bxf3 Nxf3# 0-1

Play online turn-based chess at http://www.chessworld.net Happy new year 2010! A return to the 2001 Space Odyssey - the Hal 9000 Supercomputer! [Event "Hamburg"] [Site "Hamburg"] [Date "1910.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Roesch"] [Black "Willi Schlage"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C77"] [PlyCount "32"] [EventDate "1910.??.??"] {Poole - HAL 9000 is a fictional chess game in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the movie, the astronaut Frank Poole is seen playing chess with the HAL 9000 supercomputer. As HAL is supposed to be infallible, no one is surprised when HAL soundly defeats Poole (though the novel mentions that HAL is programmed only to win 50% of the time in order for there to be some point in the astronauts ever playing). The director Stanley Kubrick was a passionate chess player, so unlike many chess scenes shown in other films, the position and analysis makes sense. The actual game seems to come from Roesch - Schlage, Hamburg 1910, a tournament game between two lesser-known masters.[1]} 1. e4 { Space.. cold.. likecalculation!} e5 {HAL 9000 is a fictional computer in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey saga. It was ranked #13 on a list of greatest film villains of all time on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains. HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is an artificial intelligence, the sentient on-board computer of the spaceship Discovery. HAL is usually represented only as his television camera "eyes" that can be seen throughout the Discovery spaceship. The voice of HAL 9000 was performed by Canadian actor Douglas Rain. In the book, HAL became operational on 12 January 1997 (1992 in the film)[1] at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois. His first instructor was Dr. Chandra (Mr. Langley in the film). HAL is depicted as being capable not only of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, and natural language processing, but also lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, reasoning, and playing chess, in addition to maintaining all systems on an interplanetary voyage. HAL is never visualized as a single entity. He is, however, portrayed with a soft voice and a conversational manner. This is in contrast to the human astronauts, who speak in terse monotone, as do all other actors in the film.} 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Qe2 b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. c3 O-O 8. O-O d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5 Nf4 11. Qe4 Nxe5 12. Qxa8 (12. Qxe5 Bd6 13. Qe4 Qh4 14. Kh1 Bg4 15. d4 (15. f3 Ne2 16. h3 Ng3+ 17. Kg1 Nxe4) 15... Rae8 16. Qb7 Qxf2 17. Nd2 Re1) 12... Qd3 13. Bd1 Bh3 {The position after 13...Bh3, and the ones that follow, were used in Stanley Kubrick's movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" for the game between Frank Poole and the HAL-9000 computer.} 14. Qxa6 Bxg2 15. Re1 {Kubrick's father taught him chess at age twelve, and the game remained a lifelong obsession.} { Eventually, he sought jobs as a freelance photographer, and by graduation, he had sold a photographic series to Look magazine. Kubrick supplemented his income by playing chess "for quarters" in Washington Square Park and various Manhattan chess clubs.[9]} Qf3 16. Bxf3 Nxf3# 0-1

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